Thursday, January 2, 2014

The good and bad of 2013 season

Well the good part of my season was when I kept checking where they slaughtered all those deer the last 2 years I did not find one dead deer only the skinned hide of a fawn hanging on a fence.There were plenty hunters camped out but they left the area the cleanest I heve ever seen it.I also did not have to chase one person off my property,but then I could not hunt my 20 acres next to my neighbor because according to the MDC it is illegal to hunt an AREA that has been baited.Well the neighbor does not bait- he does not hunt -he just likes to feed the critters,but since my property is an AREA according to the MDC its illegal to hunt.The neighbor on the otherside of him who has 300 acres in his AREA hunted anyway.I tried to show him the law but he said "get away you crazy old bastard".
Can you imagine that.I have this crazy idea I wish the Fabulous MDC- know it all-would do.PUT SOME FEET TO THE SIZE OF AN AREA YOU MORONS.
  As to my hunting it was rough and I had a few doctor bills,but you have to obey the MDC law.
Do you know how hard it is for an old guy like me to lasso a spike buck and hold it down so I can measure to see if it had 3 inch spikes.The second one I did it got me a trip to the doctor and 20 stiches.Thats it for me.Now I am only going to shoot forked horns..
  Now I have to figure out my next problem..POACHERS..Me and my neighbor have talked to the MDC agent and told him about these guys that are using dogs to take my game.
The agent said you can not stop the dogs if they are chasing critters on your place because they can not read signs ,but get the name off their collar and they will do something..We think he was just "shinin"us on. We tried chasing them with pickup-no luck.with a 4 wheeler-no luck.Held a steak on the end of a stick and whistled here fido-again no luck.
   We finally figured out how to get the name off the collar.